only hours ago in cairo the exiled leader of hamas held a news conference saying that he is not looking for any escalation of the conflict, but he did say, and i quote him, we will not accept any israeli demands. they are the ones who attacked. a cease-fire will occur when our demands are met. specifically, hamas wants an end to the blockade of gaza and they're calling for more mortar getted assassinations by israel. israel is calling for a buffer zone around the border with goz and for an end to all the rocket attacks. before the escalation of the current conflict, hundreds and hundreds of rockets had been fired by militants into israel for the past several months. now, just hours ago we heard yet more air raid sirens in the south. the iron dome missile defense system once again did its job. we could see interceptions taking place. there were no injuries. the israeli military keeping up its pressure. in gaza there were a number of air strikes in the last several hours. we're told by our producer on the ground one of the targets was a bank in gaza with links to hamas. additionally, we a